Propaganda
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Propaganda, a political way of persuading people to believe in a certain way or something. Very often it is confusing and difficult to tell if the speaker is telling the truth. In Latin, propaganda meant ‘ideas to be spread around’, however, in WWI, it became the meaning of ‘political ideas that are deceptive’. A propagandist should have a specific set of goals, his/her will select facts, arguments, opinions to in order to support his/her argument.
Propaganda in Animal Farm
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In the novel, Old Major, the prize winning boar gathered all the animals in the barn and started a speech. He determines that humans are their enemies, as they treat them like slaves, and guaranteed if humans are got rid of, the animals would live better lives. The Beasts of England, a song that was taught to the animals by Old Major, encouraged them to work as a party. When the song was replaced by Napoleon, Squealer suggested that the song was desiring for freedom, and since the animals now have their freedom, there will be no need of the song. George Orwell uses propaganda throughout the novel as it would be used in the Russian Revolution, it allows us readers to learn about propaganda and how it also brought out the beginning of the story.